But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people – easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.

My Commentary: What did these men have in common? They were all “rulers” who were “legally” empowered to commit their heinous deeds through the SAME IRRATIONAL, JINGOISTIC CULT RELIGION, known as “THE STATE.”

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artworkhere, being shared by the page, “Freedom is a State of Mind,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal. If you use the State as a metric for ethics, you’re going to have a bad time”